J. W. Mackail chose and translated some five hundred epigrams from the Greek Anthology, arranged by theme: love, prayers and dedications, epitaphs, literature and art, religion, nature, the family, beauty, fate and change, the human comedy and death. Poets from Simonides and Plato to Meleager, Callimachus and Byzantine writers appear, with an introduction on the history of the epigram.
Mackail’s graceful prose versions remain a fine way into the brief, perfect poems of ancient Greece. Download the free EPUB.